Meanwhile, inside the Colosseum, where Li Na and her grandkids, along with Jesus, Buddha, Brahma, Jade Emperor, Amaterasu, and Xiwangmu, and after Mammon turns off his time spell, everyone helps each other on how to register Li Qing Long, Li Xuan Hu, and Li Baihu into the tournament.
"Geez... talk about huge!" Jesus, amazed at the size of the Colosseum, speaks as he looks around.
"Nah... to be honest, this is quite smaller than we have, right Jade?" bluntly and not be amused by it, as Xiwangmu speaks.
"What are you talking about now? We barely have a colosseum that big. And above all... in our time, all of the tournaments we entered were always held on open grounds, with us flying above." Perplexed by Xiwangmu's statement, the Jade Emperor simply brushes it off.
Thus, Buddha joins in as well.
"Well... Now, Jesus mentions it... It really is huge! Just what kind of tournament needs a stage this big?" Buddha calmly wondered around as he delighted in it.
Then Brahma speaks.
"Since magic, spells, martial arts, and more exist in this world. This kind of arena is quite a fit for a tournament. "
Then casually follow the response by Amaterasu as she speaks calmly like Brahma.
"That is understandable, I suppose? However, looking at these people... are we sure this will turn out just fine?"
"Ah? What do you mean, Amaterasu?" Xiwangmu inquired inquisitively.
Everyone looks at Amaterasu, disturbed and spaced-out for a moment.
"It's just compared to Jiang's kids... These people are way too weak. This will be a one-sided beat-up. "
Perplexed and bewildered, everyone looks around them and checks each person they see.
"You're right... this is going to be a boring tournament." Dejected and disappointed, the Jade Emperor immediately lost his motivation.
"So much for our hopes..."
Buddha and Brahma share the same depressed atmosphere as the Jade Emperor.
"Yeah."
Then, in the midst of it, Satan, Asmodeus, Belphegor, and Beelzebub walk in and join in their conversation, as they show up among the crowd.
"For such trivial things, you worry too much... How about this: since you guys really want an enjoyable time as well, why don't we ask Jiang to let her kids fight without allowing any use of spiritual power? Just simple prowess, martial arts and knowledge? Just an old school fight, earth style."
Even Satan said confidently that they show a slight interest in it but are wary of what will happen if they somehow agree.
"But, would Jiang even agree with that?" Jesus shows concern about the topic.
"Lucifer will surely agree, but given the fact that Jiang changed... and how we know Jiang was before, I have some doubts. " Belphegor speaks in his sleep.
Dumbfounded and disturbed, everyone looks at Belphegor.
"Seriously you guys worry too much; it'll be fine… I am sure, Jiang will agree with it. Besides, the reason why Jiang was overprotective of his kids before was that his daughters were all normal people and had never had combat experience.
Beelzebub, speaking firmly to everyone.
"Besides, with her knowing that Raphael is the kids' guardian, I am sure Jiang will allow it."
"We wouldn't be so sure unless we asked them instead." Asmodeus joins in, and speaks casually.
Then Li Na came from the crowd in the midst of their conversation and showed up in front of them.
"You guys... I apologize for keeping you all waiting.
"No worries, Mrs. Li Na..." Buddha calmly sweet-talked Li Na as he spoke.
"How's the listing, Madam? Have the kids enlisted already? There isn't any problem, is there?" Concern and worry, said Jesus.
"AH?! Enlistment went well. But the problem is, we have to hurry to find a seat, or else we won't find any." Troubled and tired, Li Na tried to calm herself down and speak normally.
"I see... Then, let's go?" Buddha replied to her casually as he lent his hand to her.
Li Na was surprised for a moment seeing Buddha's hand, then took his kindness and lent her hand to his.
As Buddha smiled, he spoke formally.
"Shall we, Madam?"
Thus, everyone follows.
Meanwhile, Li Jing and her troublesome pets have caused some trouble right in front of the entrance and are now in front of the counter.
A brown-haired woman at the counter yelled at Li Jing, annoyed and pissed!
"Like I said! You can't enter anymore!"
"Why?! If it's an entrance fee, I can pay!"
"It's not that, Miss! The tickets are already sold out!"
Li Jing gritted her teeth and brashly-off with her frustration and anger.
With a crowd around her, Li Jing couldn't stay longer in front of the woman who was guarding, organizing, and assisting whoever entered the colosseum.
Annoyed that she couldn't enter anymore, Li Jing left and went outside while dragging two trash cans with her.
Frustrated Li Jing clicked her tongue as she left the gate, frowning.
"Luci! Stop the time! We'll go inside illegally!"
As Li Jing threw a tantrum and let go of Lucifer, Lucifer stood up casually and then immediately snapped his fingers.
And so everything stops!
"I had a hunch that things like this would happen, since we wasted too much time." Li Jing sighed, exhausted from everything that had happened till now.
Lucifer, who saw her reaction, sighed as well, then tapped her head.
"Haizz... It's my fault anyway that we wasted too much time."
Li Jing looked at Lucifer. Although she's a bit depressed, she still tried herself to become happy.
"Anyway, let's go inside before the event starts."
Thus, Lucifer and Li Jing enter, accompanied by Mammon, who is still in Li Jing's possession.
Dragged and not caring, Mammon snaps his fingers and lets the cigar appear in thin air.
Before Mammon even tried to light his cigar, Li Jing caught a glimpse of him and immediately stopped him.
"Just what do you think you're doing in that vessel, Mammon?!"
Angered yet still collected, Li Jing still tried to question Mammon's actions.
"!?" Mammon caught a moment that made him flinch, as he was surprised by Li Jing's interruption.
"…Mammon, I am well aware that any vessel can self-regenerate during the possession, but, wouldn't it be better if you left that kid's body already, if you are eager to smoke?"
Li Jing firmly grips the cigar as she tries to calm herself down from her anger.
Mammon didn't speak any further but instead did what Li Jing had told him to.
At that moment, the kid's mouth opens and a liquid gold lava starts to move out of the boy's body. It flew outside and went inside Mammon's original vessel, the old man.
Li Jing looks at Mammon, the liquid gold lava, and then glances at the boy.
Unconscious and dead weight, Li Jing immediately let go of the kid's head, then slid her hand down on the boy's back neck in care.
Simultaneously, Mammon appears in front of Li Jing.
"Better?" Mammon looked at Li Jing with such a forceful smile on his face.
Li Jing noticed his peculiar smile, but simply let it slide because he did what she said.
"Well thank you..." Li Jing gave Mammon a genuine smile.
"!" Mammon jolted for a moment and looked away with his guilt in his chest.
"Then... allow me to take this boy with me."
Li Jing shifted her body and then gently lifted the boy up onto her back and stood up, carrying the kid from behind.
Then Lucifer speaks.
"If you guys are done already, let's go. Those guys are probably already annoyed with us constantly stopping time without letting them know. "
"You're right... hehe..." Li Jing just walks beside Lucifer with a smile on her face, as if all her worries had instantly left her.
Mammon, who saw it all, felt disturbed and puzzled.
"I will never understand Jiang, ever..."
As they enter the Colosseum, Lucifer immediately releases the time stop by snapping his fingers again.
Like Buddha and the others, Li Jing was overcome with awe!
"Oh my...! The inside is huge! This is probably twice the size of that in North Korea, right Luci?"
"Hmph…! This is nothing. If I wanted to, I could make something three times the size of this." Lucifer was annoyed at seeing Li Jing's awe expression.
Li Jing upwardly looked at Lucifer's face, speechless and skeptical.
"Of course you could." Then Li Jing simply ignores Lucifer's jealousy and looks around her. "Anyway, Lucifer... Would you mind tracking my boys where they are?"
"Sure..." Then Lucifer snaps his fingers and then, from that moment, Li Qing Long, Li Xuan Hu, and Li Baihu appear in front of their eyes!
"!" The triplets, confused and spaced-out, were shocked!
Li Jing, who was also surprised by the sudden appearance of her kids, immediately glared at Lucifer and yelled at him!
"I said, track them! not bring them here! Seriously, Lucifer?! Don't you know the difference between tracking and summoning them?"
"Too much time would be wasted if we walked where they are." Blunt and firm, Lucifer looked upon Li Jing without utter ill intention.
Li Jing is furious, but she can't hate Lucifer for his unintentional favor to her.
Even though she wanted to express her anger, she couldn't; thus she simply brushed-off and said, "Thank you!" in such an annoyed yet sincere tone.
Then Li Jing walks forward to her kids, delighted and happy.
However, even though she's delighted to see her kids, her sons look at her, frowning and annoyed.
"Wha-what? Is something wrong?" Confused and bewildered, Li Jing asks her kids.
Li Xuan Hu, Li Qing Long, and Li Baihu didn't reply to their mother, but instead they glared at the boy who was on their mother's back, who was currently unconscious.
Li Jing caught a glimpse of their gaze and awkwardly spoke to her kids.
"Ah?! This…!" chagrined, Li Jing tried to explain the situation. "This kid was in trouble so... We're just trying to help him."
Her kids were not totally convinced as their eyes went dark and they frowned even more while glaring at the unconscious kid.
Then Li Xuan Hu spoke, firm and sinister.
"Mother... other within the family, no one should touch you... Our stepfather is exceptional, since we already acknowledge him. But other than him, no one... Not even a kid like us is allowed to touch you. "
"!" Li Jing got frightened and immediately got shivers from the terror that came from one of her kids. Is this jealousy? Or is it fondness? But there's one thing that Li Jing knows! She needs to stop this madness of his kids.
However, even though she felt the sheer terror and anger of her children, she still tried to stay calm and explained everything thoroughly.
Or so she thought.
Without Li Jing's being aware, Li Baihu, imbuing his hand with his own power and enhancing his strength, flicked the kid's forehead, making the boy, who was leaning on his mother's right shoulder, blow away from her back before Li Jing even tried to speak.
Shocked and surprised, Li Jing turned around and took a quick look at what happened to the unconscious kid.
Luckily, Mammon was following them from behind all this time, so he was able to catch the kid in midair and avoid any damage to both the kid and the people around them.
Mammon glares at the triplets and slowly walks past them.
"I'll take care of this kid, since it was my responsibility in the first place."
As Mammon carried the kid like some baggage, he left without saying anything further.
Meanwhile, Li Jing, who witnessed the cruel act that one of his sons committed, immediately slapped Li Baihu.
"!" In shock from her mother's slap, Li Baihu's anger immediately turned into fear and shock.
"What in the world was that for?!" Serious and firm, Li Jing glares at her kids with anger and hate. "...How dare you do that to that innocent child?! I did not raise you three to become rude people! Who do you think you are to hurt someone without knowing everything?!"
Furious and enraged, Li Jing yelled loud enough for the people around them to look at them.
"…" The triplets tremble in fear and are afraid to look at their mother's glare, as they look away to avoid eye contact.
Then Li Jing continued to discipline and punish her kids with such malicious intent.
"I never wanted to do this but... you three bought this on yourselves! You guys are banned from using your power!"
Then Li Jing signaled for Lucifer to come towards her using her finger.
Thus, Lucifer just complies and walks forward.
"Lucifer! Block the mana core and spiritual core of these three! Until they realize they're wrong, don't open it!"
"Are you sure about this? They might receive a serious injury if something happened to them!"
"So? Instead, I punished them... This is ideal for them to experience pain as normal beings! Besides, Mom contacted me earlier saying that these kids enlisted their names in the tournament... IN ON THEIR OWN ACCORD! I already told them earlier that they shouldn't enter the event! But they didn't listen...!"
Then, Li Jing paused for a moment to gaze upon Li Baihu and spoke furiously.
"Now, not once, but twice! They really have done it! They did this to an innocent kid! This kind of rude attitude cannot be forgiven by a simple apology! I am disappointed and disgusted knowing I raised some rude kids."
Lucifer sighs and then leans forward on them and looks at his step-children with a pitiful look on his face.
"Stand still..." Then, just like in any ancient Chinese martial art, Lucifer hit all the body points on the triplets' body, from shoulders to legs. "...Rather than blocking the mana core, stopping the flow in your body would be enough punishment. All the meridians are blocked... And also stop thinking that by opening your meridians forcibly, you'll just turn yourself into a crippled person if you do it. "
"…!" The kids gulped as they heard a fearful statement.
Lucifer looked at them, concerned and wary. He then lightly flickered the triplets on their forehead.
"Here's a little help..."
"!" Startled for a moment, they looked at him puzzled.
"I did not do this because I was against your mother's punishment. I did it because I know you three have no idea what real combat is like."
Li Jing saw what Lucifer was doing and asked in such an annoyed tone.
"What did you just do?" Frowned and irritated, Li Jing asked.
Lucifer leans back against himself and stands still.
"Relax... It's just combat knowledge of the earth. "
"Hmph!" A shrug off from Li Jing and then holding Lucifer's left arm and continuingly saying, "Let's go! That's enough!"
Li Jing pulled and dragged Lucifer away from the kids and left them behind without saying anything further or looking at them as both of them left.
Li Qing Long, Li Xuan Hu, and Li Baihu look dejected yet annoyed.
"Mom is totally mad at us, this time, because of what I did!" Li Baihu immediately regretted his actions as tears welled up in his eyes as he remembered his mother slapping him.
"We don't blame you for that action. Actually, I might have pulled that kid's whole arms out of mom's shoulders, if it wasn't for you doing that. " Li Qing Long speaks with a tone that has a bit of remorse and guilt, but he tries to hide it from the statement as he speaks.
Then both Li Qing Long and Li Baihu caught Li Xuan Hu's attention and immediately asked.
"What's wrong, Brother?" They spoke with interest and concern.
"…" Li Xuan Hu didn't answer but instead stayed spaced-out, as if he had never heard a single sound or voice from his brothers.
He put his fingers on his chin as he thought deeply.
"This…" In these deep thoughts he has, his spirits dive in! All the records that combat training, lessons, and fighting skills.
"What is this...?! Just what kind of combat knowledge is this?!"
Lucifer sent everything, and I mean everything that has anything to do with combat. Murder, war, techniques, martial arts, blade arts, sword arts, spears, guns, and many more. It also includes knowledge about human body parts, which points out specifically where vital points are.
While Li Xuan Hu's spirit dived into his own thoughts, each piece of knowledge gleamed one by one and struck Li Xuan Hu from every part of his spiritual body!
In shock, Li Xuan Hu panicked as soon as the first light hit him on his stomach.
"What in the..." The first one hits immediate stacks in his memories, then another one goes, and the next one goes, one after another, and it continues until there is nothing left.
Each knowledge disappears instantly as soon as it hits Li Xuan Hu's spirit body.
"This is... amazing! So this is what combat art is! Wait a minute... This is precisely what Mom did when he was training us! Does this mean Mom has already traveled to a faraway land before?" Li Xuan Hu's trembles with excitement from awe and amazement at the knowledge that Lucifer, his stepfather, bestowed on him.
The fact is that Li Xuan Hu and his brothers never went outside the forest until now. None of them knew what the outside world was.
The minimal knowledge that Li Jing has from her previous life wasn't enough to educate her kids, let alone teach them specifically.
Then..
Li Xuan Hu finally came back to himself and snapped out of it.
"!" He flinched the moment he came to, and saw Li Baihu's face right in front of him.
"w-wha… What are you doing?!" Li Xuan Hu asked, confused and disturbed.
"You've been spaced out for a while. Are you OK?" With such concerned looks and the tone of his voice, Li Baihu looked at him.
"I am alright... Anyway, let's head back."
"But brother, we don't have any power right now. Can we really do it?" Anxious and afraid, Li Baihu speaks.
"Of course... Have you tried to accumulate the knowledge that Father bestowed upon us, guys?"
"We haven't yet..." Li Qing Long nonchalantly replied.
"Then do it now, before the tournament starts. You'll know how awesome it is. "
"Ohh… ok." Li Qing Long and Li Baihu respond awkwardly, seeing how enthusiastic Li Xuan Hu is.
Then, moments later, after accumulating all the combat knowledge and coming to, Li Qing Long and Li Baihu went speechless and bewildered.
"These... are the exact things that mother do during training."
Both Li Qing Long and Li Baihu's reactions to receiving the knowledge that Lucifer bestowed upon them were shocked and thrilled!
"See… With this, I am sure we'll do just fine." Said by Li Xuan Hu with a firm and confident voice!
Then Li Qing Long and Li Baihu nodded as they agreed.
"Anyway, let's go... It'll become troublesome if we arrive late once the tournament starts."
Thus, the triplets walked towards the back of the other participants gathered.
Meanwhile,
Lucifer and Li Jing have now been found and reunited with their mother and their friends, along with two stray kids they found along the way.
Gathering in one place, both Lucifer's party and Li Jing's party have captured everyone's attention around them.
They greeted each other and sat down.
However, Li Jing, on the other hand, has gone dejected and downcast as if the whole world had abandoned her.
As they sat beside each other, Lucifer casually looked at her and spoke nonchalantly.
"You know… if you are regretting your actions earlier, you shouldn't have done that."
"But…! It's emotion reflex kicks in!"
"There's nothing wrong with what you've done. It's part of life to punish the wrong actions. So stop sulking already!"
"…Alrigh-"
In the midst, Li Jing's statement stopped, and she suddenly felt an ache in her chest.
"!"
Li Jing's breathing became suddenly heavy and hard.
"W-what the heck is wrong with me?! I feel so hot! My mind is starting to get weird...! What the heck is this?!!"
Her mind was starting to fade, her vision was starting to get cloudy, her breathing was starting to get heavy.
Then Lucifer, who was sitting beside her, noticed her strange behavior.
"Are you OK?"
Lucifer taps her back with concern and wariness.
"I-i-I a-am ok!" Li Jing stutters as she speaks!
"You don't sound OK. Are you feeling somethin-g…?"
Lucifer leans forward and looks closely at Li Jing. However, before he even sees Li Jing's situation... Li Jing immediately embraced him!
"!" Lucifer was surprised by Li Jing's sudden action, so he immediately asked
"Li Jing, what's wrong?" in shock and confused, Lucifer held Li Jing away.
However, before he even gets his answer, Li Jing kisses him!
"!" Surprise! Lucifer got bewildered!
Lucifer tries to shove her away.
"Li Jing! We're in public!"
But Li Jing didn't answer but persistently held Lucifer's hand and kissed him deeply!
Li Jing forcibly put her tongue inside Lucifer's mouth as soon as Lucifer opened his to speak.
"What the?! Don't tell me, is she in heat right now?!"
Unable to speak, Lucifer's thoughts went instantly to a conclusion about Li Jing.
Li Na, who was sitting next to her daughter and saw the entire commotion, went surprised and speechless.
"Li Jing!" Embarrassed, Li Na yelled!
He immediately heard Li Jing's mother's disturbed voice, and he himself immediately snapped his finger and stopped the time.
Then he telepathically communicates with everyone: Jesus, Satan, and the rest.
While Li Jing's tightly holding him and kissing him deeply, Lucifer's speaking in his mind.
"Guys... can someone of you alter Li Jing's mother's memory? As if we're just late?"
Then Jesus casually replies.
"I can do that… but, at least make sure you two come back."
"Thanks…!"
Thus, Lucifer stretches his right arm and opens a rift between time and space above him.
With Li Jing's mouth left open and with her tongue let out, Lucifer awkwardly took a quick glance at Li Jing's euphoric face.
"Yeah... I'd better do it fast. She's really in heat!"
Lucifer controlled his rift and forcibly let it swallow them inside of it.
Then they disappear from everyone sight.
At that very same moment, as Lucifer and Li Jing disappear, time and space continue on. The outside world starts moving again.